New Coffee Maker

The most interesting thing I did this month was a trip to Target to buy a new coffee maker.

I wanted one an automatic one hour shutoff, so if I wander off in a computer gaming fog, the coffee will still be sort of drinkable.  OK, mission accomplished, plug it in and start it, wander off to play Civilization, back for coffee (er, it had shut off), and why is the pot only half full and there is a bog puddle of water on the counter?

Oh- there is a hole in the back of the water resevoir, and a matching one in the back of the box the machine came in.  Dumb, back to Target who were happy to exchange it, no questions asked.  This time I inspected the box carefully....

So make that two trips.  Target is just so different from Wal Mart Number one it might as well be a foreign coutry.  I didn't hear any shoppers speaking Spanish in the aisles, and a total absence of large pick up trucks in the parking lot.  Much nicer cars in general in the parking lot too.